Container.



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CONTAINER. APPLlCATlON FILED MAR. 21.1917.

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CONTAINER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 2|. |911.

Patented Sept. 3, 1918. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 /l IIIIIIIIIAAW Tinrrnn sTngTns PATENT onnien.

ALBERT PAUL'COCHRANE, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 HRVEY, BARBER & MCKEE, OE' NEW YORK, N. Y., A FIRM COIVIPOSED OF EVERETT P. HERVEY, TI-IUR WILLIAM BARBER, .AND LANIER MCKEE. v

CONTAINER.

To all lwhom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT PAUL Coon- RANE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Container, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improvement in containers and corner-pieces, and its object is to secure a particularly inexpensive yet efficient construction. The invention is susceptible of embodiment in thecontainers of my Reissue Patent No. v14,294 of May 1, 1917, which are built up of separate'flanged wallk or side sections united and stayed at the apical corners by pyramidal or virtually pyramidal clamping fastenersfthe specic departure in the present case being that the members of the fasteners are connectedY by a bending operation. y

In the laccompanying drawings:

Figure l is a perspective view of the container partly assembled; Fig. 2 is an inside view of one of the corner fastenings; Fig.13 is a section through the same and the walls 1 of the box on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, the condition illustrated being that which precedes the final crimping or uniting opera` tion; Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the Amembers bent; Fig. 5 is an voutside perspective view of :if-completed corner; Fig. 6 is an inside perspective view of a completed Vcor-v ner; Fig. 7 is a view like Fig. 4 illustrating a modified construction; Fig. 8 is a similar view showing another modification; Fig. 9 is an enlarged cross-section on the line 9-491 of Fig. 8; Fig. 10 is a view similar toFig. 4 showingk another alternative construction and Fig. 11 is a section through the inner member before assembling. l

The container illustratedisa'hollow par-fV allelepiped built up of separate side or wall sectionsl, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6,7prefera'bly of sheet metal and having inturned edge anges 7. For purposes of distinction the sections may be referred to as end sections l and 2, side sections 3 and 4, bottom section 5, and top or cover section 6. The flanges enable the sections to be mutually staying when fitted together in the erected condition and aEord anchorage for the cor- A11er fastenings, as in my prior patent.

Each of the present .corner .fastennga Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented sept.-3,191s.

Applicationpfiled March 21, 1917. Sei'ial No. 156,246.

shown in Figs. 3 and 4 fon example, comprises inner andouter members 8 and 9, of substantially hollow pyramidal form, fitting the interiorv and exterior apical corners of the container. The inner member has a hollow protuberance 10 at the apex,and`the cap has an apical recess, preferably formed by the interior of a larger hollow protuberance 11.

In assembling, the protuberancelu,

10 is inserted in the recess, and there locked and different manufacturing processes may also be employed. Y

The extreme corners of the sections are provided with registering or complementary openings 12 for the passage 'of the protuberances 10. In one or moreof the sections, Vparticularly the cover section Orthe one last applied in the closing of the box,

the ends of Vthe flanges may be separated by spaces or slots 13, which vslide over the necks of said protuberances 10 of theinner corner members, which may thus be positionedbefore the cover is put on. During thisoperation vand until locked the said members may be held in place by virtue of theiriprotuben ances being a somewhat tight fit in the corner openings of the end and side sections 1 4. Or, as'shown in Fig. 8, the necks of these protuberances maybe initially some- .what smaller than the heads, the latterbeing larger than the slots 13, which in such case Vshould be provided in all the sections. These slots and their coperation with the fasteners are disclosed in' a specifically diff` ferent embodiment in my co-pending application Serial No. 156,245 filed March r21, 1917, ywherein will be found claims generic to the y two applications.

Corner fastenings suoli as contemplated by this invention will usually have to be destroyed in order to open or disassemble the container, but can be replaced at slight expense if re-use of the container is intended. Thus, even thou h the fastenings themselves are not separat e Without injury? the bOX sections are capable of being knocked down and nested compact-lyfor return to the point oforiginal shipment, where they may again be built up with new fastenings. y

In the modification of Fig. 7 the protuberances 101 and 1la of the members 8a and 9a are open at the outer end, the inner protuberance being longer-than the outer so that its edge may be bent back over the edge of the outer protuberance after `the manner of a tubular rivet, thus securing an especially tight clampinglock. Figs. 8 and 9 illustrate the fact that protuberances, such as shown in Figs. 3 and t, may be united by indentingthem at spaced points instead of by an annular constriction.

Figs. l0 and 11 show a construction wherein the outer protuberance 11b of member 9b is 'hollow and open, while the inner protuberance 10b of member Sb is solid and provided With a terminalin or iiange 15 to be upsetover the edge of the outer protuberance.

Various other modifications and alternative constructions may be devised. Attention may be called to the fact that the container sections maybe provided with the outwardly offset seats for the fastening members shown in Figs. 12 and 13V of my application, Serial No. 156,245, iiled March 21, 1917, above mentioned. It is to be understood that the term container is used generically and does not refer to particular use.

What I claim as new is: 4

l. A container constructed of separate Wall or side sections united at the apical corners by fastenings comprising each a virtually pyramidal cap having an apical recess and a virtually pyramidal inner member having an apical projection to enter said recess and adapted to be united with the outer member by bending.

2. A container constructed of separate Wall or side sections united at the apical corners by fastenings comprising inner and outer virtually pyramidal members formed respectively with diagonally projecting protuberances and sockets adaptedk to be locked together by a bending operation.

3. A corner-piece for containers comprising a virtually pyramidal cap having a recess at the apex, and a virtually hollow pyramidal inner member having a hollow protuberanceentercd in said recess and united to the cap by bending.

t. In a container, a corner-piece comprising an angular outer member having a recess at the angle, and an inner member having a hollow protuberance held 'by bending in said recess.

5. In a container, a corner-piece comprising an angular outer member having an opening at'the angle, and an inner `member having a hollow protuberance passed through said opening and having its head larger than the same so as to hold the members against separation.

6. A corner fastening for the apical'corners of sectional containers, comprising a virtually `pyramidal cap having a recess at its'apical region, a member adapted to engage the interior corner of the container, and a uniting element adapted to extend from the inner member through the apical corner of the container into said recess in the cap and to be united with the'cap by bending.

7 A corner fastening for the apical corners of sectional containers, comprising a virtually,pyramidal cap having an opening through its apical region, a member adapted to engage the interior corner of the container, and a uniting element adapted to eX- tend from the inner member through the apical corner of the container and said opening in the cap and to be bent over on the outside of the latter.

8. A corner-piece for containers comprising a ivirtually pyramidal cap having an apical recess,l and a sheet metal inner member having a hollovv protuberance adapted to be received in said recess and locked therein by bending.

9. A `corner-piece for containers comprising virtually pyramidal inner and outer sheet metal members having apical protuberances adapted to be received one in the other.

10.In a container or the like, the combination with sectionsmeeting at an apical corner and there provided with an opening, of a corner piece comprising a virtually pyramidal cap having an apical opening and an inner member having a protuberance adapted to be passed through the openings in the sections and in the cap, said protuberance having a constricted neck adapted to hold it in the opening of the sections'while the cornerpiece isbeing assembled.

ALBERT PAUL COCHRANE.

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